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The way we make assessments about many people every day is by looking at their face. Faces tell us basic information such as gender, approximate age and possible ethnicity. But we also learn to read faces to...
Until the age of 14, Tom’s teachers had labelled him a ‘slow learner’ due to his inability to read, despite eye tests revealing his vision was normal. Four years ago he was diagnosed as having...
This year’s Reith lecturer is the neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The five lectures study neurological...
Introduces the clinical relevance of myotonic dystrophy and Huntington’s disease. In two parts: 1) myotonic dystrophy: a consultant in clinical genetics talks to a family where the mother does not have the...
2: In the 1980s people in Britain ate BSE-infected food, and the first victims of a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human parallel to BSE, may have already died. Asks how BSE is transmitted, what...
Reviews the basic characteristics of apraxic deficits and describes possible clinical variants applicable to apraxia of speech. Describes a form of congenital dysarthria and compares and contrasts it with...
Looks at Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder of the brain characterised by acute anxiety, and inability to understand others, obsessional interest, and often, an above-average IQ.
Many patients who suffer stroke have to overcome a variety of behavioural problems which affect the quality of their daily lives. Helping such patients to cope successfully with the effects of their stroke...
Examines Tourette’s syndrome, a brain disorder characterised by muscular and vocal tics as well as obsessive behaviours. Looks at the difficulty of diagnosing the condition, and the imperfect understanding...
BBC broadcaster Glyn Worsnip suffered from cerebellar ataxia, a rare, incurable and little-known brain disease that progressively affects balance and speech. This film follows him as he investigates and...
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